Over the past few decades, solar cells have become increasingly widespread, with a growing number of individuals and businesses worldwide now relying on solar energy to power their homes or operations ...

SnO 2 has been widely used as electron transport layers (ETLs) for efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs) due to its high transparency, high electron mobility, and favorable band alignment. PSCs ...

An international research team has proposed a perovskite solar cell architecture incorporating a thin tetraphenyl-porphine ...

Concept and device schematic. Left: A phenanthroline ligand (BUPH1) coordinates under-coordinated Pb(II) on the perovskite lattice, suppressing halide-vacancy defects. Center: Vacuum-evaporated PeLED ...

Although local defects in chloride-iodide-based perovskite are hard to avoid due to ion migration, a group of scientists have now found a way to passivate them. They used different combinations of ...

Researchers discover new method to passivate defects in next generation optical materials. Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) discovered a new method to passivate defects in next ...

Copper corrodes quickly when exposed to oxygen. You must protect copper traces on outer layers from corrosion by passivation or by coating them with an inert material. Passivation refers to any ...